LUMINAI Public Lecture Series

On August 21, ASI Global held the August session of its LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, who delivered an online talk titled “AI for Humanitarian Action: Innovation in Crisis Response”. Addressing Chinese university students and scholars interested in international affairs, Mr. Hochschild explored how artificial intelligence is transforming humanitarian action, emphasizing both the vast opportunities and the significant risks that AI brings to crisis response.

On July 16, ASI Global successfully hosted the July session of the LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Professor Philip Allmendinger, a distinguished scholar in land economy and urban planning from the University of Cambridge. Professor Allmendinger has also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath and as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge. His research spans urban planning theory and practice, regional development, and policy frameworks that shape how cities evolve.

On June 21, ASI Global hosted the June session of the LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Randy W. Schekman, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Speaking to a live online audience of students and scholars from across China, Dr. Schekman delivered his fourth lecture for ASI on “Developing Scientific Literacy in the AI Era”.

On April 9, the LUMINAI Lecture featured an insightful online talk by Professor Jonathan Michie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and President of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford. In his talk, Making Lifelong Learning Central to University Strategy, Professor Michie underscored the imperative of repositioning lifelong learning to the core of university strategic planning in order to meet the evolving needs of individuals, societies, and economies in the age of intelligent transformation.